Tuesday, 12 September 2017

Frieza has a grandma!

Officially that was never confirmed or even mentioned. But in the German version of the manga and even in the anime a few additional lines were added to let the fans believe that a higher force in the Frieza family does exist.


For that we need to go to volume 28 and chapter 330: Right before Trunks shows up, Frieza usually states that with his increased power he should be able to defeat Goku himself, however in the German version the space emperor has the following lines:


"With daddy I can do this for sure!"
"Else he gets beaten up by my grandma."

This not only suggests that Frieza has a grandma, it also mentions that she even seems to be stronger than King Cold.



But there's more: After Trunks killed Frieza it's now just him and King Cold left. Before Cold asked to get Trunks' sword he suggested the future warrior to join his family to become 'his new son'. After Trunks declined, King Cold answered in the German version a bit more than: 'Such a shame!'

'A shame. And what am I going to tell his grandma now?'

Interestingly that line even made it to the German anime version since the script for the anime was often based on the manga dialogues. 


But this all caused more of confusion since in the original run there never was a grandma of Frieza and that's all just a joke made by the German translator.

But still, it makes the German version a bit of unique, since that 
wasn't mentioned in any other manga or dub as far as I'm aware of.

And I would bet nobody outside the German speaking Dragon Ball community knew about this. The Google search results speak for itself, so therefore I thought it could be time to spread this information of Dragon Ball history.